Though I'm still lost in the idolasphere, there's still plenty of games to deal with this week. Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha, a compilation of four shooters from Japan, is the headliner from NIS America, while Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath and retro brawler 198X (actually an 8-4 joint) are the big ones in the download sphere.

The Archives will be busy this week as Sega is bringing Fantasy Zone and Shinobi over from Japan (while shadowdropping a Puyo Puyo game there last week), and the multiplayer madness of SpeedRunners provides a nice follow-up to AGDQ. A new hot demo is also out from Playtonic in the form of Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. (On Steam, see you next week.) In Japan, Nippon Ichi will publish... I'm not even going to attempt to spell what it's actually called, but it's more likely to be known as Void: Terrarium.